Fort Hood had a paint booth manned by soldiers. Units rotated that duty and my platoon always sent the least sharp soldiers (this was back in the day of polished boots and starched BDUs). I made sure I never pulled that duty. Ft. Hood was all tan then so patterns and artistry were not required - they just sprayed on another coat.
Andy
I dont know why they bother actually camouflaging them. Not like they stay clean enough, long enough for it to really add anything. IIRC CARC is an rough finish paint and really held onto any dirt or dust that got on it. After a few hours running around the training area our Humvees were the color of Carolina dirt/sand
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That was a side affect of flattner used to make the paint ‘dead flat gloss’ and not reflective. Newer versions use polymeric beads to make it flat and it doesn’t have the same micro roughness, so it doesn’t scratch and mar or pick up dirt like before.
Oh, FFS… ok sure, maybe it does some IR stuff better, but that’s literally re-hashed woodland…
Geez, I wish people would stop trying to rebrand the same thing over and over.
Also it makes me cry-laugh a little when I think of how much money has been spent on “universal camo” research so we can find out the shit from the 80s was pretty much spot on for what we still need today. Shocking… :rolleyes:
I love the variety of stuff people know off the top of their head here.
Earlier guidelines looked like this:
https://archive.org/details/FM5-201968/page/n41
The objective was to make everything look like a bush with deep shadows.
If you really wanted to be clever, you would make the trucks look like tanks so the enemy never really knew how many he was really up against. Camouflage isn’t just about hiding stuff; its about deception.
In WWII factories were camouflaged to look like farmland:
